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[WSJ.com: Driver's Seat] Water can damage a vehicle’s engine, electrical system and interior, and flood currents can also carry your vehicle away. More than than half of hurricane deaths in the last 30 years resulted from inland flooding according to the National Hurricane Center. Of those deaths, one in four people drowned cars.
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